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Senior Data Engineer @ Netflix San Francisco Bay AreaSenior Software Engineer @ Drawbridge, Inc Building high performance digital web advertising (ad) serving systems, caching technologies, and other ad-serving components in Java. Design and development in Java, Hibernate, Spring framework, REST APIs, Hadoop and other cutting-edge technologies and languages on Linux environment. From April 2013 to May 2018 (5 years 2 months) San Francisco Bay AreaGraduate Student @ San Jose State University Project Experiences at SJSU• NoSQL Database Exploration and ComparisonExplored various NoSQL storage solutions to compare and contrast the storage approaches for metadata management of a large document storage system. Used Wikipedia page metadata as information source to investigate this.Technology Used: Java, MongoDB, Neo4j, TouchGraph, Neoclipse, WikiMedia API• Stock Trading SystemDesigned and built a stock trading system which provides clients with live feeds of stocks and also an option to download historical, temporal and spatial data in specific format. Technology Used: Java, EJB3.0, JMS, JPA, JBOSS, MySQL, JSP, Servlets, Ant• Social Literacy Cloud (read-a-loud) Built a web application enabling users to search books by keywords, track the books they read, comment, share, create book clubs, get book recommendations and thus promote reading.Technology Used: Java, Hibernate, Apache Lucene (for indexing, searching books), Apache Wicket, MySQL•Observed a real world interaction and modeled it using client server programming (Java sockets). Constructed a sustainable framework with emphasis on extensibility and isolation/decoupling of the components.Technology Used: Java Sockets, XML, JSON•Led a team of 8, to design and build an online ordering system for customizing and ordering a burger online. Followed agile development methodology (Scrum). Technology Used: Java, JSP, Servlets, HTML/CSS, MySQL, Tomcat•Constructed an overlay grid, random and mobile networks consisting of 100 processes and analyzed message propagation (point to point and broadcast) using gossip protocols. Algorithms used: Random Walk, Rumor Mongering.Technology Used: Java, jGroups, Python, Ant•Developed a mobile payment application similar to Starbucks iPhone appTechnology Used: Java with Design Patterns From August 2011 to May 2013 (1 year 10 months) San Jose, CAStudent Assistant-Technology @ San Jose State University Re-designing and management of Academic Advising website, unit communication, and onsite assistance with technical issues, in addition to management of various databases.Technologies Used: Javascript, HTML, CSS, FileMaker Pro From January 2012 to May 2012 (5 months) San Jose, CAEngineering Intern @ Sling Media 1. Worked on building a monitoring service for a globally distributed network streaming service. This enabled engineering team to monitor the health of globally distributed servers and also to simulate realtime requests to server and check the connectivity and streaming functionality.Technologies Used: Grails, Groovy, Java, JQuery, Quartz Scheduling, MySQL, Log4jAPIs used: Rightscale, DynECT, Hyperic SIGARDeployed on EC22. Worked on building a web application to aggregate feedback received from users. Provided features like filtering, searching, sorting, categorizing using buckets, exporting to different formats, graphing to visualize data, thus enabling to analyze, draw conclusion and make decisions accordingly.Technologies Used: Grails, Groovy, JQuery, HTML, CSS, MySQL.Deployed on EC2 From June 2012 to December 2012 (7 months) Foster City, CAProgrammer Analyst @ Cognizant Technology Solutions Interacted with US based clients to enable them migrate their applications to cloud.Assisted clients in deploying and maintaining ad-server on cloud using Amazon web services. As an Offshore Coordinator, Interacted with US based insurance clients, gathering requirements, performing analysis, design, development and quality review activities.Tools, Technologies & Platform: MySQL, Hadoop, Amazon Web Services, Zenoss, Java, Linux, Shell Scripting, Awk From December 2008 to August 2011 (2 years 9 months) Bengaluru Area, IndiaUndergraduate Research Project @ SDM College of Engg & Tech , Dharwad Priority Based Conflict Resolution in Multi-User Context Aware Environment:Architected and designed the core component “Conflict Manager” to resolve conflicts among multiple users in a context-aware environment. (Published a paper in IEEE on the same topic). From November 2007 to May 2008 (7 months) Dharwad, Karnataka, India